Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity Growth

Abstract

This collection of 12 papers along with an introduction by the editors examines the impact of population aging (the increase in the mean age of the population together with the increase in the percentage of the population which is elderly) on economic productivity. These 12 papers were originally presented at a symposium in December 2004 co-sponsored by the European Union and the Vienna Institute of Demography and were published in March of 2008 as a Supplement to Volume 34 of the Population and Development Review.